Pakistan

Manzoor Pashteen: For a Truth Commission in Pakistan

31 October 2019 by Taha Siddiqui

Manzoor Pashteen, 25 years old, is leading a growingly powerful movement in Pakistan that claims justice for the Pashtuns, a population which counts tens of thousands of victims of terrorism and its repression since 9/11. To ackno [...]

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Imran Khan supporters celebrate as Pakistan faces electoral chaos

26 July 2018 by AFP

Pakistan was gripped by electoral chaos on Thursday with the outgoing ruling party denouncing "blatant rigging" in the pivotal general election and rejecting unofficial, partial results suggesting victory for former cricket champi [...]

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Women as 'collateral' in Pakistan jirga justice

6 August 2017 by AFP

The rape of a teenage girl in revenge for a crime committed by her brother has left residents of Raja Ram in central Pakistan shaken and questioning a deeply entrenched system of village justice. Last month, a council of village e [...]

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'Partition is not over': Pakistani Hindus find little refuge in India

31 July 2017 by AFP

For decades, Jogdas dreamed of moving to India to escape the persecution he suffered as a Hindu in Muslim Pakistan. But the reality of life over the border is a far cry from those dreams. Seventy years after partition unleashed th [...]

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29 September 2016 by AFP

Pakistan fury after India launches Kashmir strikes Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes Thursday along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of "naked aggression" from its nuclear-armed neighbour. Amid anger in India over a r [...]

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26 September 2016 by AFP

Rights group urges Pakistan to halt torture, killings by police Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Pakistan's police of routinely carrying out extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, and called on Islamabad to implement urgent reforms of its under-resourced forces. The findin [...]

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14 July 2016 by AFP

Pakistan to execute 12 'hardcore terrorists': army Pakistan is to execute a dozen "hardcore terrorists" for killing civilians and troops, the army said in a statement Thursday. It said the men were members of the Pakistani Taliban and the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi [...]

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14 July 2016 by AFP

US drone strike kills Pakistan militant behind school attack A Pakistani Taliban militant wanted for his role in a school massacre has died in a US drone strike in Afghanistan, Pakistani and American military officials said Wednesday. Umar Narai, also known as Umar Khalifa and Khalid Khuras [...]